Importance of photography

Photography can be very deceiving, and can skew reality. It is our job to minimize the natural distortions that occur when we convert a three dimensional world onto a flat piece of paper. There are always issues of perspective - the perception of an object being smaller because it is further away. Many things can influence the problems that perspective can have on a photograph. If you stand very far away from an object and use a telephoto lens, the object may be the exact same size on the page as if you stood right in front of it with a wide angle lens. However, the surrounding environment can appear completely different. See this graphic to help illustrate the concept. Since this can dramatically affect the way the object is perceived as fitting into its environment, it is very important to use the most representative focal length and carefully select the place from which the photograph is taken - the viewpoint.

http://www.previz.com/pages/11_photography.html

Photo sharing sites

Today as we all know we upload photos to the internet and photo sharing sites. It's easer to show the world your work. It also makes it easer to see what is going in the world.


I site I like the most is DeaiantART.

Something striking.....

Something I find striking about photography is that with out it we would know almost nothing about the world. Yes people would travel and go places, but it's easier to believe someone when you can see what they are talking about.

Bringing back photos is a way of telling a story to people that have not been there. To show them what is going on in the world. For example would the people who were not there to see this happen believe the stores? 

Dorothea Lange

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has chosen Dorothea Lange: American Photographs as the last large photography exhibit in the old War Memorial Building. As Dorothea Lange never considered herself an artist to begin with, it is ironic for her to be on exhibit here. Though it is appropriate that her work is displayed at the Civic Center, near the site of labor demonstrations that she often photographed, than at the new Museum site near Yerba Buena Center.

If Dorothea Lange was alive today, she would probably be out in United Nations Plaza, talking with and photographing the homeless. Shy as she was, Dorothea Lange was always interested in people: either her rich clients who sat for their portraits in her early career, or the migrant workers from Oklahoma she spent time with in later years.

http://www.ibiblio.org/channel/Lange.html

(yes I know I am bad I just copied it)

old cameras

The basis for this collection was cameras, which were used by my family, a German, Glunz (Glunz, Hannover, Germany) plate camera and a Justophot "exposure meter", one Kodak Brownie, Dacora Digna, an old Ernemann Bob, my fathers old Praktica FX and my first SLR, Asahi Pentax Spotmatic.
About thirty years ago I started ferreting rummage sales, accepted and bought anything, which looked like a camera and had serious discussions with my loved wife.
Soon it was time to figure out what I am going to do with my cameras. Internet gave me an idea, why not build a virtual camera museum, and that was it.

Today the number is over 200 old cameras, their specifications, pictures and descriptions. Most of them, are not so called "collectibles" but I hope that on some page you will find the information that you are looking for.The prime goal of this collection is to present and preserve an example of a broad range of cameras and to to give a visitor an entertaining and rewarding trip to the world of the photography before bits and bytes.

http://www.thecamerasite.net/